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Paradise opened, or, The secrets, mysteries, and rarities of divine love, of infinite wisdom,…Paradice opened, or, The secreets, mysteries, and rarities of divine love, of infinite wisdom,…
Paradise opened, or, The secrets, mysteries, and rarities of divine love, of infinite wisdom, and of wonderful counsel laid open to public view also, the covenant of grace, and the high and glorious transactions of the Father and the Son in the covenant of redemption opened and improved at large, with the resolution of divers important questions and cases concerning both covenants ... : being the second and last part of The golden key / by Thomas Brooks ...Paradice opened, or, The secreets, mysteries, and rarities of divine love, of infinite wisdom, and of wonderful counsel laid open to publick view also, the covenant of grace, and the high and glorious transactions of the Father and the Son in the covenant of redemption opened and improved at large, with the resolution of divers important questions and cases concerning both covenants ... : being the second and last part of The golden key / by Thomas Brooks ...
London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1675
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Though the name be not in the Scripture, yet the thing Answ. is in the Scripture, as will evidently appear, by comparing1 Scripture with Scripture; though it be not positively and plainly said in the blessed Scripture, that God made a Covenant of works with Adam, before his fall: Yet, upon sundry Scripture grounds and considerations, it may be sufficiently evinced, that God did make such a Covenant with Adam, before his fall; and therefore, it is a nice cavil, and a foolish vanity, for any to make such a noise about the word Covenant; and for want of the word Covenant, boldly to conclude that there was no such Covenant made with Adam, when the thing is lively set down in other words, though the word Covenant be not ⟨p. 12⟩expressed; and this I shall make evident by an induction of particulars, thus;
Though the name be not in the Scripture, yet the thing Answ. is in the Scripture, as will evidently appear, by compareing1 Scripture with Scripture; though it be not positively and plainly said in the blessed Scripture, that God made a Covenant of works with Adam, before his fall: Yet, upon sundry Scripture grounds and considerations, it may be sufficiently evinced, that God did make such a Covenant with Adam, before his fall; and therefore, it is a nice cavil, and a foolish vanity, for any to make such a noise about the word Covenant; and for want of the word Covenant, boldly to conclude that there was no such Covenant made with Adam, when the thing is lively set down in other words, though the word Covenant be not ⟨p. 12⟩expressed; and this I shall make evident by an induction of particulars, thus;
- 1Socinians call for the word satisfaction, others call for the word sacrament, others call for the word Trinity, and others call for the word Sabbath, for Lords day, &c. and thence conclude against Satisfaction, Sacraments, Trinity, Sabbath, for want of express words▪ when the things themselves are plainly and liely set down in other words, in the blessed Scriptures: so it is in this case of God's Covenant with Adam. The vanity and folly of such ways of reasoning, is sufficiently demonstrated by all writers upon those Subjects, that are ound in the faith, &c.